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Use in varieties of Scots

tiles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.9 5.5 6 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1611 4 0 0 0 1
Number of authors13 8 4 1

Occurrences of tiles in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Yankin' tiles aff roofs wi' ease. on page 28

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ose wi its weathered auld rid tiles and its tall lums, and Miss H on page 229

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
nd o crashin widd and brekkin tiles cam fae directly abune their on page 164
. Shooers o stoor and crackit tiles and dauds o widd and clockers on page 173

2 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Dislodgin tiles wi each fine polisht huif, on page 59

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
. It wis full o the baby pink tiles Maw insisted oan, and ah sat on page 40
eyes oan the ceilin's square tiles, Ah dinnae want tae be remind on page 86

2 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
trotters clicking on corbled tiles. Dirt fear flashin in its een on page 59

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
lose still retains the ornate tiles fae when the buildin wis cons
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Like, a nicht, upon the tiles.
1 matches

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Your chippit tiles an’ shoogly stairs.
1 matches

Doric

Maitland, Andrew Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Auld Mannie, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
a patchwirk o black an white tiles, an at its centre was a large on page 76

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ed on the fireplace's crackit tiles, rockin back an fore aS Ah st on page 65

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
-room fireplace, polishin the tiles, an gien the fender a good ru on page 106

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
wee nap efter a night on the tiles at the Fittie Bar tae sober u(2018) search twitter

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Sally passin oot on the teuch tiles o the lavatories efter bein l on page 20

1 matches

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